Impact Of COVID-19 Pandemic and Updated Utilization Patterns of Sacroiliac Joint Injections from 2000 to 2020 in The Fee-For-Service (FFS) Medicare Population

CONCLUSIONS: The study shows the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic with a significant decrease of intraarticular injections of 19.2% from 2019 to 2020 per 100,000 Medicare population. These decreases of intraarticular injections are accompanied by a 5.3% decrease of fusion, but a 23.3% increase of arthrodesis from 2019 to 2020 per 100,000 Medicare population. Overall, the results showed an annual increase of 0.9% per 100,000 Medicare population for intraarticular injections, a 35.4% annual increase for sacroiliac joint arthrodesis and an increase of 15.5% for sacroiliac joint fusion from 2010 to 2019.PMID:35652764

Source: Pain Physician - June 2, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Laxmaiah Manchikanti Thomas T Simopoulos Vidyasagar Pampati Maanasa V Manchikanti Radomir Kosanovic Salahadin Abdi Mahendra R Sanapati Dhanalakshmi Koyyalagunta Nebojsa Nick Knezevic Douglas P Beall Amol Soin Alan D Kaye Alaa Abd-Elsayed Joshua A Hirsch Source Type: research